the popularity of scientists predicting an ice age is very clear up to the Feb 1979 meeting of the World Meteorological Organization

“upcoming ice age” is the meme du jour up to 1985 at least

there is a warmist slant in 1990 but strangely, the arguments of discussion are more or less the same still central to the debate in 2010

This collection strongly indicates that in Italy, like elsewhere, the average reader of newspapers would have had all the reasons to believe in a “global cooling consensus” for much of the 1970’s and even later.

Mentions winter 81-82 as colder than 77’s, considered “coldest in the century” by “American climatologist”

Walter Orr Roberts and sun/drought link

Mentions Stephen Schneider, according to whom the “turnaround year” from a warming trend to a cooling one was 1972, a year with drought in the USSR, floods in Pakistan, and a delayed start of the monsoon season.

[…] · The Claim: Declarations about MGW have been discussed in peer-reviewed scientific literature for 50 years. We entreat Shawn to provide us with just one little citation from 1961. It seems that one Roger Revelle was into global warming in the 50’s, but did he publish any peer-reviewed articles? Of course, the Swede Arrhenius is credited with first proposing the relationship between CO2 and warming. His prediction: ‘a doubling of CO2 would increase the temperature by 5C’. We would certainly be amiss if we didn’t mention the ubiquitous Dr. Hansen, who seems to have come to the fore with an article in the NYT by one Walter Sullivan on slow news day in 1981. There is even a newspaper article (peer-reviewed?) from 1957. But the big news was not warming, but rather cooling, and the coming of a new ice age. There were the usual fear-mongering articles and yes, peer-reviewed literature to support the scientists’ claims. See Here, and Here. […]

[…] his very first blog in a long time to a couple of blog posts in my very successful “1970s Global Cooling Consensus” series. There’s the usual litany of insults, of course, yawn, and that’s fully […]

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[…] In fact, we now know that “the world” was not cooling at the time, but “the Northern Hemisphere” was. Only thing, the scientists in 1972 had no way to know it was just a Northern Hemisphere thing. All of this is actually quite inconsequential wrt the original question (once again: “Did the scientists believe in the 1970s that there was global cooling?“). Anyway: in the published scientific literature, the global cooling idea started in fact evaporating in 1975, and had been replaced by global warming at full speed from 1979 or so (curiously, in sync with the PDO…). The same happened but much more slowly outside the world of research, so most people have been exposed to “global cooling” (actually, to global cooling consensus…. […]

Hopefully I or somebody with a little more time to spare will be able to go through the list of names appearing in my blog, and see what they were publishing in the scientific literature.

The Schneider quote in particular about 1972 being the tipping point from “warming” to “cooling” is priceless (if accurate!).

People with the usual tired replies(“it’s all newspaper articles!”) should explain how exactly different journalists in different continents speaking different languages managed to sustain the “global cooling meme” for so many years in face of overwhelmingly contrary scientific opinion (that I prettyh doubt ever existed).

Also it is important to note that, far from being the silly democratic/ committee-based endeavor of our times, science in the past had its superstars, with authorities built upon hard work and capable of single-handedly defining what the consensus was: climatologist Mitchell in 1972 (mind you, correctly mentioned even by Peterson, Connolley and Fleck even if they forgot what that article meant) like paleontologist Glaessner in 1957.

So all the counting up of cooling vs warming articles may amount to literally nothing, just like a soccer team scoring 500 goals in Third Division still won’t be remembered as the year’s national champion

“People with the usual tired replies(“it’s all newspaper articles!”) should explain how exactly different journalists in different continents speaking different languages managed to sustain the “global cooling meme” for so many years in face of overwhelmingly contrary scientific opinion (that I prettyh doubt ever existed).”

Exactly so!! And so far as I am aware, this important issue has not yet been addressed. Not even mentioned in almost all cases.

Journalists, generally speaking, do not make up out of thin air the basis of their reports. Some kind of coordinated effort across languages, countries, time periods, and somewhat complicated concepts would have been necessary to carry a fiction to such heights of visibility.

Tellingly, scientists and other informed individuals are usually the sources for the basis of the reports. The very same category of people who now proclaim that it never happened.

[…] Today’s warmists want you to forget that there was a consensus in the 1970′s about global cooling, because it brings a much needed perspective to their sky is falling mentality. But Omniclimate will not let them forget the reams of global cooling articles. […]

Holdren (Obama’s “science” adviser), was one of the “coolists” back then. In fact he was one of the authors of an article talking about how to create global warming to fight off the ice age. Now he’s apparently just as busy playing a “warmist” role.

Keep in mind that Obama got involved in the establishment of the CCX before becoming president. (CCX – Chicago Climate Exchange).

Excellent find, Maurizio, and a great follow-up to your earlier discovery, the 1974 CIA document. Leads me to wonder just what else is out there from pre-internet times (and outside the Anglosphere), waiting to be found.